$469 and the engine is back in my possession bored and honed, new pistons on the old refurbished rods, polished crank,rods and main caps, new cam bearings. She is on the stand already.

Also bought the paint in old rustic brown and primer in flat white and gloss clear coat to start painting the bronco.
Trav

 

Ordered a melling M83 standard volume and pressure oil pump from O'Reilly. After work will pick up a freeze plug kit in brass and start cleaning the engine to paint it.
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Ordered the head gaskets, oil pan gasket, valve cover gasket and timing cover gaskets.
All from summit in fel-pro totaling $121. Also ordered a brass freeze plug set through O'Reilly will pick it up Wednesday when I get the oil pump.
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Cleaned the water jackets and oil journals. To tired to do to much today will do alot more after work tomorrow and the next day as it is my day off.
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Today cleaned and painted the engine, oil pan, timing cover, oil pick up tube, oil pump shaft, harmonic balancer, water pump pulley.

Hopefully tomorrow the parts will start coming in that I can get a bit farther.
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Red give us some pictures!

 

Best pics I have right now. Got all the gaskets yesterday. Got to check in with oreilly tomorrow about getting the cam kit. Changed the cam to the second one I was suggested as I think it will do better. Now is going to be a comp 35-231-3.
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After spending all that $$ you might want to consider buying a new harmonic balancer.

 

I had the machine shop check the harmonic balancer over and he said it was good. The one I chose to use is actually only 4 years old according to the machine shop which is probably true as it had a reman engine not very old on the bronco it just got abused bad. I also had him check over the flexplate as the last thing I want is the engine to get f'd up from that.
Trust me I am going over every little thing there is on it as this is my dream truck and building engines is a lot of fun to me.
Next engine I build is going to be a 350-400hp small block going in a 62 Fairlane for a cruiser\show car.
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Cam kit will be here in a couple weeks. Got a k35-231-3 for $370 after tax and all usually goes for $460 before tax.
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Picked up the water pump, fuel pump, thermostat, thermostat gasket, intake gasket and exhaust manifold gasket the other day. Hopefully going to get started on assembly just been crazy right now.
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Crank, pistons and rods are all installed now. Also got the freeze plugs in.
Got to order the distributor before I go farther probably on pay day.
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Keep it going

 

Ordered a black cap proform hei distributor from summit for $130 last night. Also started cleaning the heads up. Need to get the to the machine shop to get some broken bolts out.
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Started gasket port matching the heads and taking the thermactor bumps out when my Dremel tool broke on me. Got to get a new one then back to work. They are cleaning up well. I know it isn't worth much in power wise doing it but the terrible ports were driving me nuts and I wanted to try my hand at porting.
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